Finally I am on PayPal’s developer directory.

I took the PayPal certified developer test back in July, right after eBay live in Boston (What a blast that was), I have passed the test and received the rights to use the logo, however, up until last Friday, my name was not listed on the PayPal certified developer directory.

How did I finally get listed?

With the help of my friends at PayPal, when we met (some of them we met back at eBay live in Boston and at the PayPal party bus) at the PayPal developer day in the heart of New York City.

Great event that PayPal just started few weeks ago, at the event, you will get the study guide and meet PayPal’s own developers that traveled all the way to share their knowledge.

Below in the picture is me and Damon Williams, the PayPal developer program manager and a fellow blogger on the developer blogs as well.

PayPal certified developer with Damon

After I got listed, my phone started ringing again, 3 clients so far, This directory is very powerful marketing tool.

To check the directory go to: This page

To take the exam ($150 per test with retaking option) go to: This page

Win $10,000 plus an iPhone from PayPal

In an effort to promote eBay Mobile, PayPal is running a promotion sweepstakes between October 15th to November 30th.

As a buyer I like the idea of buying and paying on the go through your mobile phone.

As a seller on eBay I like it even more to know that I will get more exposure through a different platform, your cell phone, and in results will get a bit higher prices for my items.

How to enter:

You’ll be automatically entered, up to once each day, when you pay with PayPal for auction-style listings or Buy It Now products from m.eBay.com on your cell phone.

You will also get a chance on the 5 $100 daily prizes.

For more info go to eBay Mobile page.

eBay is also running a promotion for sellers now until December 12.

Sellers can get free gallery or discounted value pack and gallery plus. For more info go to the promotion page. (This link will expire after the promotion)

SnapShot.com new advertising service at ad:tech

With, over 2,000,000 Web site operators, bloggers and individual Web surfers today voluntarily use Snap Shots on their sites and browsers. Snap Shots is used about 15 million times daily and has been translated into 43 languages by volunteers.

In conjunction with the Snap Ad Network, a new program that allows advertisers to deliver content with associated context-based ads to millions of Snap ShotsTM users, Snap.com today announced Snap Shares, a new way for Web site operators and bloggers to make money using Snap Shots, the most popular Web site enhancement in the world.

Well what is SnapShot?

Follow my blog or subscribe to my RSS feeds or to my email list and I will go through a full review of the service, here is a brief preview as an example of what it is:

When mousing over a hyper link, a small SnapShot window reveals content from the linked site formatted according to the content type, such as a video player from a YouTube link, a brief summary from a Wikipedia link, etc.

I will integrate in my site soon.

The new service, Snap Share, was to be announced on Thursday at BlogWorld expo, but they decided to share it with us today at ad:tech New York.

A new money making stream, Snap Shots with Snap Share allows bloggers & Web site owners to increase their revenue with the context based ads at the bottom of each Snap Shot. This is, I think, the best ad placement since it;s in your content and to the side or bottom of it.

Snap.com said: Snap Shares is actually three ways of sharing ad inventory. Sites can:

1. Have Google serve ads via their Adsense account.

2. Display their own text or graphic ads.

3. Donate their shares of impressions to a Charity of their choice. (I like this option)

The idea behind Snap Shares is to allow sites to…

* Generate new advertising inventory on their site.
* Meet their minimums for pay-out from their Ad Network sooner or increase their monthly checks.
* Improve the user experience of their sites with richer, more interactive content.
* All without having to shift the ads-to-content ratio of their pages.

Joining the SnapShares program is easy.

1- Site/blog operators register at Snap.com and adjust their Snap Shots to meet their site’s look and feel, such as logos, language, color, size, etc.
2- Each site provides account numbers from their existing advertising providers. If they do not have an Ad Provider, the registration form includes links to participating providers.
3- According to their individual Ad Provider agreement, revenue generated from using SnapShares will be issued directly from their Ad Provider. And I am looking into that, I think it’s a better way to choose who you want to be in your site.

To register for Snap Shares or view a demo, visit http://www.snap.com/.

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